Bowl attachment for tobacco-pipes.



No. 647,740. Patented Aim-I7, I900. J. P. BEATTY.

BOWL ATTACHMENT FOR TOBACCO PIPES.

(Application'flled Jan. 23, 1900.)

(No Model.)

A77}? EYS IN VE N TOR FIZZ WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. BEATTY, OF NEVVAR K, NEW JERSEY.

BOWL ATTACHMENT FOR TOBACCO-PIPES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 647,740, dated April 17, 1900.

Application filed January 23, 1900- Serlal No. 2,432. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN P. BEATTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bowl Attachments for Tobacco-Pipes, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to tobacco-pipes of that class which are provided with bowl attachments in the form of baskets which hold the tobacco and which fit into the bowl to facilitate perfect combustion an'dto preventthe nicotin from clogging the pipe-stem.

In order to fit approximately to bowls of different sizes, so that a comparatively-slight air space is formed between the basket and the bowl as distinguished from a considerable air-space and to assure that the basket will contain enough tobacco for an enjoyable smoke, a peculiar construction of basket which will practically conform or adj ust itself to the interior of the bowl is necessary. It is one object of my invention to attain this result.

A further object is to so construct the basket that it can be readily inserted in and removed from the bowl.

WVith these ends in View my invention consists of certain features of construction to be hereinafter described in detail and then claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional side view of a tobacco-pipe, showing my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective View of the tobacco basket or lining in normal expanded condition, and Fig. 3 is a similar View showing it contracted. Fig. 4. is a transverse section on line 4 4, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a transverse section on line 5 5, Fig. 3 3 and Fig. 6 is a side View of a modified form of basket.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawings.

A indicates a pipe-bowl of the ordinary kind, and B the stem.

D indicates the basket, lining, or tobaccoholder, which is of thimble shape in general appearance and is made of suitablythin metal, such as sheet-tin or aluminium. The body of the basket is perforated, slitted, or slashed after the manner shown. In Figs. 1

to 5 the basket is slitted or slashed to provide slits e and is also provided with perforations e, while in Fig. 6 the basket is simply perforated. The invention, however, does not depend on the nature of the said interstitial and they are so bent'as that the side edges of the adjacent ones will overlap, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, when contracted. Lips f project outwardly from the upper ends of the petaliform retainers, so that when the basket D is inserted in the bowl of a pipe and pushed down the lips will come in contact with the rim of the bowl, and thereby prevent the basket from being pushed down too far, as

it should not touch the bottom of the bowl.

Said lips are also made so as to overlap or slide one on the other, as shown in Fig. 3,

when the retainers are contracted.

The basketD tapers at a sufficient distance below the upper ends of the retainers so as to allow the upper portion to frictionally bear on the inner surface of the bowl and hold the basket in position.

A basket or lining constructed'adjustably as described is adaptable to different-sized bowls and is retained therein simply by contracting the same more or less, the spring action of the retainers serving to that end It is unnecessary in order to contract the basket or lining to press the retainers together with the fingers, as on pushing the basket into the bowl the smaller size of the bowl will act to automatically contract the basket,which self-ad j usts itself, as it were. Sometimes the retainers will be separated and sometimes they will overlap, depending on the size of the bowl which receives the basket.

There is always more or less space between the main lower portion of the basket and the bowl; but never so much space as that the expansible basket will not practically conform to the bowl or so that the tobacco in 1 the unburned tobacco, nor the quality of the latter thereby injured.

The basket is preferably made by cutting the same out in flat sheet form and then bending up the retainers and lips; but it is evident that it can be made in any other desirable" manner.

'Iam' aware that devices which fit into the bowls of tobacco-pipes for holding the tobacco and which are constructed tofitdifferent sizes of. bowls are not: new and that bowl-baskets which are perforated and are, provided with retaining devices are also not new, and I do not therefore claim the same can itself be adjusted to different sizes of bowls.

I Having thus described myinvention, I Y

claim asnew and desire to secure byLetters Patent- 1 l 1 i 1. A bowl attachment for tobacco-pipes, consisting of an interstitial thimble-shaped basket or lining constructed with adjustable retainers forming the wallsof the basket or lining and conformable to the interior walls of yarious sizes of pipe-bowls, said retainers being arranged near together and atall times practically continuous around the circumference of the basket or lining, substantially as setforth. 3 v

2. A bowl attachment for tobacco-pipes, consisting: of an interstitial'basket, having slots providing spring-retainers, said slots being narrowso as not to materially interrupt the continuity of the basket, substantially as set forth. a o

3. A bowl attachment for tobacco-pipes,

consistingof an interstitial basket, constructed'with contractible overlapping retainers, substantially as set forth. J

The combination with a tobacco-pipe, of-a lining for the bowl, constructed with relatively-movable interstitial petaliformretainers, slightly separated normally andadapted to self-adjustthemselves and to, at all times, practically-conform to and cover the interior of bowls of different sizes, substantially as sctforth. Y

ln'testimony-that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses. 1 1, s JOHN P. BEATTY,

Witnesses:

GEO. L. WHEELOCK, M. H. WURTZEL. 

